Memoirs of a RAFian

[Cloak]

Now . . . you wanted to know who the traitor was (though you may have already guessed)?

Can I get a drumroll?

*someone whispers in his ear.*

That much, huh? Never mind! Here's a shortish chapter.

CHAPTER EIGHT:
It Feels So Good To be Bad!

"What is it, Cloak?" Aquilai said, putting his hand on Cloak's shoulder.

"It's him," Cloak said. "Itellsya is the traitor!"

Aquilai's eyes widened. "How . . . how could you tell?"

"That wasn't his grandmother," Cloak said stoically, "It was Malice. Wearing a cheap ID mask rip-off."

***

"M-Mistress, it worked," Itellsya said, with a sliver of fearful tremor in his voice. "Th-they fell for it."

"Silence!" Malice snarled as she ripped off the ID mask, which looked like a metallic version of the Green Lantern mask. Then she snapped her fingers and music started up and she turned to Itellsya.

"Now, I know you can be malicious,
Spiteful, and a trifle vicious.
It's no secret that you cheated and lied!
And you've done some double-dealing,
Scheming, swindling, and stealing.
You're an amateur,
But I know you tried."

"Th-that's right, didn't I?" Itellsya said. "Money, power, stature!"

"Good boy," she said, patting him on the head like a dog, "Very soon, your efforts will be rewarded."

Then she sang:

"Oh, you'll develop so much faster
Now that you're working with a master!
Who will help you cultivate your darker side!
You'll discover wicked ways that you've never known before!
And you'll find,when you're really rotten to the core . . . !
It feels so good to be bad!
So delicious to be a dispicable cad!
It's just so thrilling and so fulfilling
To give someone the worst time they've ever had!
It feels so good to be bad!
I promise you, by sunset, I'll . . .
I'll have Richard's Horn!"

"Why can't I get it for you?"

"'Coz you had your chance and blew it.
I entrusted you to do it.
But you BINGLED it,
And threw your chance away!
It's a problem you created,
If the Horn can't be located,
I'm not naming names,
BUT SOMEONE'S HAS TO PAY!!!"

"I can try again, Mistress!"

"You'll never find it. Only RAFians can hear its heavenly tone."

"But I am a RAFian!"

"Not anymore," Malice said with a sneer, "You work for me, anyhow!"

Malice then elaborated:

"Though you gave me cause to doubt you,
There's a loathesomeness about you,
That attracts me to you as a protege!
And when you've learned every creepy, crummy thing I know
You'll taste the joy that comes when you're the lowest of the low!
It feels so good to be bad!
So delightful to be a deplorable cad!
It's so unfeeling to have the feeling
That what you're doing
Gets trouble brewing
And drives everybody mad!
You've got my guantee!
It feels so good . . . to be . . . bad!
So exciting!"

"Olé! So inviting!"

"So good to be bad!"

The song ended with both smiling.

[Cloak]

Not as big an reaction as I expected.

*Tumbleweed blows by.*

Horse! Hor-- oh, right.

CHAPTER NINE:
Horns and Misdemeanors

"How'd you see through the deception?" Aquilai asked.

"Malice should have picked up a better ID mask -- my Earthsight saw right through it."

"Oh. But Itellsya? I thought for sure it was Rotiart."

"I was actually hoping for it to be him," Cloak said as they dawdled throughout the city. "But just being an horribly unpleasant person doesn't make one a traitor apparently."

"Yes, but -- hear that?"

Cloak turned his head very slowly and looked at Aquilai with narrowed eyes. The message was clear, as Cloak's feline hearing was more acute than Aquilai's.

"Alright, stop with the look," Aquilai said. "What is it?"

"The Horn," Cloak said.

"Oh, right, the mods said that it would make that low noise like a heavenly choir." Aquilai said. "Can you pinpoint it?"

"Not exactly," Cloak said, "but it is in that direction. Let's hurry up a d procure it and get back. Communications are down."

"God, that 'lockdown' mode was always overkill," Aquilai facepalming a bit. "This'll have to be fixed when we return."

"Indeed." Cloak concurred.

And off they went following the sound.

***

"You have got to be kidding me," Aquilai said.

"The . . . the police station?" Cloak said, confused. Cloak Earthsighted as much as he could and could see, barely, that the Horn was in evidence lock-up. He thought.

Aquilai cursed, "Itellsya must have dropped it at a crime scene. How are we going to get it out?"

"That," Cloak said, "is a good question."

[theyoungphoenix]

And that....is going to be fun....

[Cloak]

I had a nicely-sized chapter, intoducing two minor characters, when this piece of crap decided to do the "post a thread instead of posting a post" thing again, only this time I caught it.

Then lost everything.

Gonna wait an hour or so before trying AGAIN.

[theyoungphoenix]

Fun. Good luck with that!

[Cloak]

Let's try this again. Those two minor characters are gonna get written out though. It will be short because of this.

CHAPTER TEN:
Break-In

"How're we going to get in there?" Aquilai asked.

"I dunno," Cloak said earnestly.

"Could you just Walk in?" Aquilai said.

"Can you --" Cloak began but he could not think of an analogy, so he dropped it, and replied. "Walking realm-to-realm, sure, that's easy. Walking within the same realm? I don't know if that's even possible."

Then Cloak, planning to deflect the question he knew Aquilai was bound to be thinking, elaborated, "Teleportation and Walking are not the same thing. I'm not Nightcrawler, Aquilai."

"Then what?"

"There's one way . . ." Cloak said thoughtfully. "You have that magic screwdriver of yours?"

"It's a sonic screwdriver," Aquilai said, "and I always have it."

"Good, unless the floor is concrete -- Earth -- we'll need it to repair it when we leave."

***

Turns out that the floor was concrete, and Cloak (using Earthsight to confirm that the coast was clear) easily broke into the evidence lock-up, and Aquilai used his sonic screwdriver to screw up the surveillance footage (there were security cameras everywhere nowadays) while Cloak took the Horn, and then he dove back into the tunnel, and Cloak closed up the opening, leaving it seamless and markless. He obliterated the tunnel behind them as they burst back up to the surface outside the city near the harbor.

[Gaz]

After a mind numbing day of having orientation stuff thrown at me for a new school it was great to have some new chapters!

These really do make my day.

[Underseen]

The traitor was almost impossible to guess until recent chapters, which made me suspect almost everyone.

[Cloak]

The traitor was almost impossible to guess until recent chapters, which made me suspect almost everyone.

Which means I did a good job then -- I was in constant fear that I was giving to much away.

[theyoungphoenix]

The traitor was almost impossible to guess until recent chapters, which made me suspect almost everyone.

Which means I did a good job then -- I was in constant fear that I was giving to much away.

You weren't giving ANYTHING away. The only thing was that you kept saying its no who you think, which most probably thought of as Rotiart.

[Cloak]

I meant in-chapter, Abby. Oh, and Rotiart will have an interesting story come future books. And pay attention to Abomination in Chapter 17 or 18 (i.e. tomorrow). He will have something rather, uh, life-changing happen to him.

[theyoungphoenix]

I meant in-chapter, Abby. Oh, and Rotiart will have an interesting story come future books. And pay attention to Abomination in Chapter 17 or 18 (i.e. tomorrow). He will have something rather, uh, life-changing happen to him.

But still... You weren't giving away anything until the chapter before... Maybe I just didn't see it....

And.... Now I have to wait.

[Cloak]

Eh, if I should decide more than five chapters today . . . maybe not so long.  Just to get your hopes up.

Now, the first chapter of the day.
 

CHAPTER ELEVEN:
Net Loss and Found

"Well, we finally have the accursed thing." Cloak said, clutching the Horn. Then his eyes darkened as he said, "We probably should destroy it."
 
Aquilai said, "After what we went through to procure it? Have you taken leave of your senses?"
 
"We wouldn't have gone through the ordeal at all if this thing was never created." Cloak pointed out. "And all for what? An initiation for newbies? We didn't have such a thing when I joined nearly five of your years ago. Why now?"
 
Aquilai took that in, and opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Malice's carrying tones.
 
"Why now? Why, so I could put you RAFians were you deserve!" she called. She was in a black cloak with a blood-red interior and blood-red clothing underneath. Her eyes burned from beneath her Cloak.
 
Then he realized what she just said. That's what she meant . . . the Horn, though named after him, was not Richard's idea. It was an idea of Itellsya, who somehow persuaded and manipulated the senior RAFians to size with this idea. . . . No one suspected him of being traitorous or manipulative enough to do such a thing! He had necessary subtlety . . . he was more dangerous than Cloak gave him credit for.
 
He was there, as well, wearing a black wool hat, a pair of stupid-looking Elton John-like sunglasses, and a black scarf that obscured everything between his nose and the base of his neck. He also wore a pair spandex gloves, some awkwardly bulky tennis shoes, and a leotard that really didn't leave much to the imagination.
 
"Hand over the Horn, or my associate --"
 
"Cut the crap, Malice," Cloak snapped. "We know that's Itellsya."
 
"Who?" Malice said, feigning ignorance.
 
"Stop playing stupid." Aquilai said.
 
"You're too good at it," Cloak said flatly.
 
"I don't know --"
 
With a flick of his hand, Cloak blasted a gust powerful enough to dislodge Itellsya's hat and glasses. He takes off the scarf, revesling himself as basically the red-haired, purple-eyed clone of Cameron Boyce with black sclera.
 
"How'd you know it was me?" he asked.
 
"That's immaterial." Cloak said.
 
"And irrelevant." Aquilai added.
 
The battle was swift and vicious, ending with the Horn falling into the water of the harbor, but the four battling were unaware of this.

It was eventually found by a hulking silhouette who decided to hide in a lobster cage -- although what lobster cages where doing here when they weren't even native to the area was unknown.

[redtailedsaffa]

I'm turning my head back and forth between a decidedly creepy episode of X-Files and Memoirs.

My day is loaded with awesomeness.

[Cloak]

Nice, Saffa.

Finished planning out the chapters of Books CLXI, CLXII, and CLXIII (which turned out well, in my opinion). Now planning out the chapters for Book CLXIV ("Moody").

• Book XXXVI: Feral Scream

A Wildwethel-centric book, he must deal with his feral side.

• Book XXXVII: Predators and Prey

The RAFians are being preyed upon by some sentient predators.

• Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem

The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.

• Book XXXIX: The Horsemen

Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.

• Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks

The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens.

• Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare

The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.

• Book XLII: Unlucky Charms

The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun.

• Book XLIII: The Piper

The RAFians must contend with a pied piper.

• Book XLIV: Starlight Desire

The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore).

• Book XLV: A War of Armor

Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique armor and what they're being used for.

• Book XLVI: The Worst Plague

The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.

• Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons

The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.

• Book XLVIII: Go Away!

The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.

• Book XLIX: RAFian Tales

RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.

• Book L: Maul

The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.

• Book LI: Erised Orbs

The RAFians must face their greatest desires.

• Book LII: RAFians Alive!

Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.

• Book LIII: The Pain Reliever

The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".

• Book LIV: Beyond the Veils

Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.

• Book LV: Dangerous Deals

Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.

• Book LVI: Of One Mind

Malice seeks out the Unimind.

• Book LVII: The End of Time

The RAFians must contend with two Kryptonians (who think they're Time Lords) and prevent them from ending time altogether.

• Book LVIII: Hematomimic

The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.

• Book LIX: Sins of Youth

Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.

• Book LX: The Replacements

The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.

• Book LXI: Arachnoids

The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.

• Book LXII: Personal Tissues

The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.

• Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow

The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.

• Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon

A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.

• Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite

Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.

• Book LXVI: The Merging

The Universes begin colliding and merging.

• Book LXVII: Be A Doll

The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.

• Book LXVIII: They're Such Cards

The RAFians are sealed into cards, which end up trapped in an ancient leather-bound book, and it's up to three kids to free them.  An out-of-continuity book.

• Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island

Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.

• Book LXX: Corrupted

The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.

• Book LXXI: Artificial Skins

The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.

• Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety

The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.

• Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians

The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.

• Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea

The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.

• Book LXXV: Vacation Photos

The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.

• Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin

The RAFians must contend with gremlins.

• Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence

The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.

• Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh

The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.

• Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol

Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.

• Book LXXX: Savage Heart

Cloak battles an ancient being called Garrotik.

• Book LXXXI: Slave Islands and Juggernauts

Three RAFians are taken prisoners by the Knights and sold into the slavery of New Genoshia, while the others deal with a juggernaut.

• Book LXXXII: Shredding a King

The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.

• Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show

The RAFians are forcibly recruited to Mojo's programs.

• Book LXXXIV: The Drinker

The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker.

• Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh

The RAFians must face Joker Gas.

• Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain

The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.

• Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen

Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.

• Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow

The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.

• Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin

The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from.

• Book XC: Virus Alert!

The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.

• Book XCI: A Youthful Thief

The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.

• Book XCII: Calendar Creep

The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.

• Book XCIII: The Branding

Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faerie's possession.

• Book XCIV: The Void Zone

Nothing like a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  Sorry.

• Book XCV: An Epic Yarn

The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.

• Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators

RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.

• Book XCVII: The Box

The RAFians must cage thirteen Revenants released from Pandora's Box -- each representing and amplifying a particular feeling (i.e. hatred), while looking for the perfect host.

• Book XCVIII: From the Shadows

The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors, but not everything is what it seems.

• Book XCIX: Grimm Prospects

The RAFians discover Malice controlling several "wesen" with control collars akin to April's in "Catwoman from Channel Six" and get stuck in one-on-one battles to the death with them.  One will die.

• Book C: Loop-De-Loop

Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Aila, and Aquilai.

• Book CI: Get 'Em, Shaw

The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.

• Book CII: Threadfall

The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of Thread.

• Book CIII: Siren's Song

The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.

• Book CIV: Resistance is Futile

The RAFians must deal with a hybridization of the Borg and the Hive chips (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) -- which the Mark cannot protect them from, nor the Unity energy can destroy.

• Book CV: The Titan

The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.

• Book CVI: A Stony Glare

The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.

• Book CVII: Spritely Pests

The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.

• Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?

The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . .

• Book CIX: Going Backwards

A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.

• Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday

The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again.  A RAFian will die in this book, and it is within the continuity.

• Book CXI: High Price Stakes

Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.

• Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market

The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.

• Book CXIII: A Silenced World

The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.

• Book CXIV: The Bureau

The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.

• Book CXV: To Tell the Truth

Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.

• Book CXVI: Skin Crawlers

The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion).

• Book CXVII: School of Stepford Lies

The RAFians must save the children from a school that turns them into Stepford students at Terenia's school.

• Book CXVIII: Ol' Salty

The RAFians must deal with the Salt Man.

• Book CXIX: The Great Race

The RAFians hold a race that Aloth cons himself into.  Who will win?

• Book CXX: Ape Escape

The RAFians must help super intelligent apes -- Caesar the chimp, Brutus the gorilla, and Maestro the orangutan -- reconcil their misanthropy.

• Book CXXI: A Different Kind of Unity

The RAFians must contend with a parasitic "unity".

• Book CXXII: The Great Brain Robery

Someone is stealing brains for an unknown purpose.

• Book CXXIII: The Bounty Hunter

The Knights, in their hypocricy, hire a Tsul'Kalu bounty hunter to collect select RAFians (to taxidermy).

• Book CXXIV: New Controllers

The RAFians confront Zirconians.

• Book CXXV: Creeping Crystal

A wave of crystallizing energy is sweeping the land. . . .

• Book CXXVI: The Element Feeder

The RAFians deal with a creature who feeds on a specific element and matures to a different element each time as it matures. . . .

• Book CXXVII: The Rider and the Walker

The RAFians come up against the Ghost Rider.

• Book CXXVIII: Headhunters

What will happen when RAFians lose their heads?  Seriously.

• Book CXXIX: The Color Purple, Man!

The RAFians confront the Purple Man, who manages to turn the entire government against them . . .

• Book CXXX: The Nemetrix Beetle

The RAFians confront the Black Beetle with Nemetrix properties.

• Book CXXXI: It's Tought to Be A Mod

The members of a primitive forum declare Demos and Blue to be mods. . . .

• Book CXXXII: Who-Zilla?

An energy reaction begins turning RAFians into monstrous creatures in 3XXX.  Out-of-continuity book.

• Book CXXXIII: Well, Techadon-ally . . .

The RAFians confront Techadons who assign them qualitive quatilities, and refuse to acknowledge any defeats.

• Book CXXXIV: The Mind's Eye

The RAFians face Spellbinder and his realistic illusions.

• Book CXXXV: Bas-ic Instincts

Bas awakens and attempts to take control of Cloak and other felines.

• Book CXXXVI: Midas Duck

The RAFians must contend with a very strange golden idol and a greedy sneak-thief.

• Book CXXXVII: War with the Warworlds

The RAFians must defeat two heavily-armed Warworlds.

• Book CXXXVIII: Solar Sucks

The RAFians must save Estelore from a device able to suck out her stellar substance and lifeforce.

• Book CXXXIX: Hounded

The RAFians are attacked by hellhounds that only Demos can see, although Cloak can "see" them via Earthsight.

• Book CXL: Politics

The RAFians, much to Cloak's chagrin and irritation, get caught up in the middle of Realm Walker politics.

• Book CXLI: Buggy Afternoon

A Bug is after Parker's blood, to "avenge" their brother slain by the SPARTAN.

• Book CXLII: Cloak's Nightmare

Cloak has an exceedingly vivid nightmare of the Great RAFian Purge. . . .

• Book CXLIII: Cloak and the Olympians

Cloak confronts and defies the Olympians.

• Book CXLIV: Down to Earth

The RAFians have gravity-related problems.

• Book CXLV: Hittin' the Dino-Sauce

The RAFians learn the dangers of Dino-Sauce.

• Book CXLVI: Blood Feud

Shanker's past comes into light. . . .

• Book CXLVII: She's Back! A Dino Story

Pretty much a shameless parody of "We're Back! A Dinosaur Story".

• Book CXLVIII: A Journey into Her Past

Delving into Noelle's pre-RAFian life and her relationship with Ardnalil-Shicom-Maar.

• Book CXLIX: Mortality and Morality

The RAFians face some rather conceited Leviathons.

• Book CL: Utter Pandemonium

Cloak, Gaz, Saffa, Underseen, and Hunter investigate odd goings-on at a theme park island named "Haunted Island".

• Book CLI: A Reality Rewrite

Cloak, Faerie, Broken, and Broken's protege discover a magical, reality-altering typewriter.  Cloak, being a Realm Walker and the other three, being magical, are immune to its rewrites of reality.

• Book CLII: The Coming of Galacticron

The RAFians must save Earth from Galacticron.

• Book CLIII: Theft of Intellectual Property

The RAFians must contend with Brainiac.

• Book CLIV: The Contingency

The RAFians must battle the Talos Project and their living weapon -- Weapon XLIX.

• Book CLV: Muppet, Muppet Man

Parker and Gaz are turned into Muppets. ()

• Book CLVI: Larval Ambush

The RAFians must deal with insectoid creatures who are parasitoids with humans.

• Book CLVII: As the World Doesn't Turn

The RAFians must stop a group of feline aliens from stopping the world from rotating.

• Book CLVIII: Princess Pearls

A few girls of RAf discover the Princess Pearls.

• Book CLVIX: Attack of the Killer Produce

The RAfians must deal and cope with killer produce.

• Book CLX: Moonscarred Menace

The RAfians investigate mysterious disappearances on Moonscar Island.

• Book CLXI: League of Assassins

The League of Assassins set a number of Assassins after Blue.

• Book CLXII: Dark RAFians

The RAFians come up against an evil team modeled after them, attempting to usurp their postions.

• Book CLXIII: Danger Rising

The RAFians' training sim gains sentience.

• Book CLXIV: Moody

Gaz and Saffa accidentally have Moodulators attached to them.

• Book CLXV: Bound Together

Some RAFians get molecularly stuck together.

• Book CLXVI: The Legion of RAFians

The 31^st century RAFians are being picked off and controlled by a group calling themselves the Fantastic Fatalities. May be an out-of-continuity book.

• Book CLXVII: Monster Mash

A deranged Yeerk tries to merge its DNA with a Geonosian Brain Worm to rid itself of its Kadronna dependency.

• Book CLXVIII: Jumping to Conclusions

A xenophobic, reliously-zealous, former government man confuses Cloak with a "Jumper".